KembaraXtra-Computer Terms – bacterium:
In computing, bacterium refers to a type of malicious program similar to a computer virus that continuously replicates itself within a system. As the program duplicates repeatedly, it consumes increasing amounts of system resources such as memory and processing power. Over time, this uncontrolled replication can overwhelm the system and disrupt normal operation, eventually causing system slowdown or failure. The behavior resembles the rapid reproduction of biological bacteria, which is why the term bacterium is used to describe this type of destructive software.